Photokina 2010 is coming and Canon has announced their fall product lineup, a new top-end entry-level camera in the EOS 60D, as well as 4 new L lenses, including 2 super-telephotos and a Fisheye zoom, and a pair of new teleconverters. There are some definite highs, a few interesting if puzzling decisions, and a bunch of price tags that could make even a deep pocket book a few pounds lighter.

 August, 2010 Canon Announces Fall Products

Canon announced today that they’ve developed a 120MP (that’s a 13,280 x 9,184 pixel image) APS-H format sensor that has a laundry list of features. The sensor can be completely read out in about 10ms, resulting in a 9.5 FPS frame rate, it can do full HD video from the whole sensor (I assume) or [...]

 August, 2010 Canon Developes 120 Megapixel APS-H Sensor

This may not exactly be news, I just got a notice about it while re-profiling my displays, but Datacolor has released (as of July 30, 2010) a new version of their Spyder 3 calibration software, version 4.0.2 for Windows and Mac OS. The new version has a slightly reworked UI that slightly improves the programs [...]

 August, 2010 Spyder 3 Software Update from Datacolor

It’s been long in the waiting, for me at lest, LPA Design’s AC-3 Zone Controller has finally started making it into retail channels. The AC-3 Zone Controller, is the little add-on that slots into the top hotshoe of LPA Design’s Mini TT1 or Flex TT5 transmitters so you can control flash powers in multiple zones [...]

 August, 2010 PocketWizard’s AC-3 Zone Controller Starting to be Avaiable

For about as long as I’ve been using Wacom tablets, I’ve encountered a rather rare phenomena where my tablet (which I also use as my mouse) will crash and burn causing my mouse to freeze. Other than this occurring in both Lightroom (2 and now 3) and Photoshop, and with both the pen and mouse, [...]

 August, 2010 Fixing Frozen Wacom Tablets in Windows

Adobe, has released a release candidate for the first update to Lightroom 3, and the second update to CameraRAW 6. Lightroom 3.2, Adobe has elected align the minor version numbers between Lightroom and Camera RAW (i.e. Lightroom 3.2 and CameraRAW 6.2 have feature parity), has an extensive list of bug fixes and brings new camera [...]

 August, 2010 Lightroom 3.2 & Camera RAW 6.2 Release Candidates

The EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM is a mid-range general purpose zoom lens designed for Canon’s full frame cameras, but is equally at home on Canon’s crop bodies. The EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM trades speed, some image quality, and a fixed aperture for a greater zoom range than it’s L or lower end kit [...]

 August, 2010 Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Reviewed

LPA Design has released the final versions of the 5.1 firmware for their Control TL PocketWizards (i.e. the Mini TT1 and Flex TT5) for Canon cameras. The new firmware adds or fixes several issues including: Adds support for the AC-3 Zone Controller Adds support for the Canon Rebel T2i (550D) Addresses an issue with the [...]

 August, 2010 Pocket Wizard Mini/Flex TTL Firmware Update

Visualizing an image is as fundamental to photography as the cameras, lenses, and film. Even modern technology is unable to diminish the need for your eye as it has for so many other aspects of photography. Seeing an image, however, is not a simple task. It can be aided, in some ways, the old standard [...]

 August, 2010 Perception, Polarization, and Visualization